Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!iecc!compilers-sender
From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: SPARC references
Keywords: SPARC, optimize, code
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.222923.10183@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:29:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.222801.11711@cs.cornell.edu>
Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
Reply-To: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Lines: 14
Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us

Check out the book "Microprocessors: A Programmer's View"
by Dewar & Smosna.  They compare the SPARC and the MIPS and give
clues to optimizations that didn't occur to me by reading the
SPARC architecture manual.  The book is very informative, even though
the writing is flat footed.
-- 

Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA
               Dept. of Computer Science / University of Manitoba
	       Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  R3T 2N2 / (204) 275-6682

-- 
Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or
{ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers.  Meta-mail to compilers-request.